3 months ago
Base Salary
$150k - $226k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, deploy, and maintain critical backend software in a Java environment.
- Write functional specifications and design documents for new features.
- Own key system components and their delivered quality.
- Design and implement scalable backend solutions for distributed systems.
- Diagnose and troubleshoot complex problems in distributed computing and production environments.
- Conduct peer reviews of specifications, designs, and code.
- Collaborate with Site Reliability Engineers, DevOps, and cross-functional teams on deployments and production issues.
- Work in short release cycles with iterative development and customer feedback.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience developing highly scalable, distributed applications, products, and backend services using Java.
- Experience with relational databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL.
- Strong understanding of how distributed, resilient software is built and deployed.
- Experience with SQL query tuning and performance optimization is a plus.
- Experience with search frameworks such as Elasticsearch or SOLR is a plus.
- Experience with applications hosted on AWS, Azure, or GCP is a plus.
- Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD processes is a plus.
- Strong problem-solving, debugging, and software design skills.
Benefits
- Competitive salary, healthcare benefits, Flexible Spending Account, Employee Assistance Program, Flexible Time Off, and Parental Leave.
- Quarterly Harness TGIF-Off providing four days off.
- Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team-building events, plus the Recharge & Reset Program.
- Monthly internet reimbursement and commuter benefits.
- Bay Area or remote U.S. work location with periodic travel required.
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About Harness
Harness builds a SaaS platform for software delivery, combining CI/CD, feature flags, cloud cost management, reliability, and security tooling for engineering and DevOps teams. The privately held company, founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, sells to enterprises adopting cloud and Kubernetes. Notable customers include United Airlines, Morningstar, and Choice Hotels, and its offerings span testing, deployments, governance, and automation across the software delivery lifecycle.